Brian Finnegan's Bicycle

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:49 pm

http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralIn ... cycle.html

I believe the handle bar plays in Bb

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 4:31 pm

I like it!

planxtydt · Post by **planxtydt** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:10 pm

Brakes?.....

David

brownja · Post by **brownja** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:20 pm

planxtydt wrote:Brakes?.....

David

Fixed gear.

jb

BigTex · Post by **BigTex** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:54 pm

Someone needs to email this link to Luka Bloom. Its the Accoustic Motorbike! Come on, get up on on yer bike, pedal on, pedal on, pedal on, pedal on....

planxtydt · Post by **planxtydt** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:07 am

So it's not going to speed up whenever it is ridden down hill?

David

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:35 pm

Not if you apply the brakes, which is done by applying the pedals backward. Fixed-gear system pedals don't spin backward freely. Instead, that is the brake function.

Man, am I showing my years. When I was a pup, somebody came up with the 3-speed bicycle and we though that was the stuff.

jqpublick · Post by **jqpublick** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 1:17 pm

Hey all;

I keep shuddering at the idea of splinters...

... No off-roading on that one for sure.

But still.... can you buy one? I would.

Mark

(note how excellently I reprained from the obvious but taxonomically incorrect pun, 'I wood'.)

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:03 pm

jqpublick wrote:No off-roading on that one for sure.

I dunno, get the company to hire the professor from Gilligan's Island, I'm sure he can come up with a design for Bamboo Shocks

planxtydt · Post by **planxtydt** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:21 pm

thanks for explaining Nano!

David

jqpublick · Post by **jqpublick** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:57 pm

Loren wrote:

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I dunno, get the company to hire the professor from Gilligan's Island, I'm sure he can come up with a design for Bamboo Shocks

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Yea, they could be coconut-milk compression with shell-dialling pressure heads. Maybe some kind of damper/compensation system built out of the excess fat of the Captain. (Fatties, maybe?)

Thurston Howell III could back the company (to the tune of "I'm cookoo for kokonuts"). Gilligan's shiny, dessicated skull could be mounted on the front forks to ward off all those that 'just want to touch it.'

Or, maybe not.

Mark